Werewolf wizard

Chapter 195: The Second Storm King is Captured

Two days later.

Inside the laboratory of Peter's main city, Su Nan only managed to create six Arcane Blink Rings and five Arcane Shield Rings.

After all, his Arcane Master bloodline was limited.

Su Nan planned to take good care of those Drow.

Or, in the future, cultivate some fleshworm scarabs specifically for extracting Arcane bloodlines.

Otherwise, if his enemies found out the source of the materials for his Arcane rings and assassinated all the Drow in his possession, he wouldn't be able to make Arcane rings anymore.

Su Nan kept one Arcane Blink Ring for himself, and then distributed one Arcane Blink Ring and one Arcane Shield Ring each to Bloom, Warwick, Wolf One, Wolf Two, and Wolf Three.

These two types of Arcane rings were extremely helpful for close combat.

With the Arcane Blink, the Shadow Werewolves' combat power would qualitatively improve.

Su Nan was also very grateful in his heart for the Arcane magic system jointly developed by the underground escapee wizard alliance.

Just as Su Nan was developing the underground world with great success, the political landscape of the surface world was also undergoing earth-shattering changes.

First of all, the new king of the Storm Royalty was once again captured on the battlefield by Grass King Carlo Yang.

The Bulgars and the Grass King had now captured two Storm Kings in a row.

If this continued, the father and son duo could gather around a table with Grass King Carlo Yang and play mahjong!

At the same time, Grass King Carlo Yang launched a third large-scale looting against the Storm Kingdom.

Carlo Yang claimed that he had received the help of a mysterious power, but everyone speculated about what this mysterious power was, but they were not sure.

The new king of the Storm Kingdom was the son of the previous king and the grandson of the king before that.

He was only one year older than Su Nan, just turned eighteen this year, and had basically never independently been on the battlefield before.

His prestige in the army and the church was very low.

The Storm nobles were not optimistic about him at all.

Duke Salonika Latin was very happy with this outcome, and relying on his status as the new king's relative by marriage, he wanted to enter the capital of the Storm Kingdom to 'help' this overly young new king.

As a result, he himself didn't remain happy for long.

The Bulgars finally couldn't bear it and began to plunder and loot the Salonika Latin Duchy, which had not been greatly damaged, and happened to encounter the main force of Duke Salonika Latin preparing to attack Storm Keep, the capital of the Storm Kingdom.

The two sides fought, and the result was a great defeat for Duke Salonika Latin's army.

He himself could only hide in his castle and refused to go out to fight again.

In this way, the Storm Kingdom's royalty was temporarily free from the possibility of being usurped.

However, the entire Storm Kingdom fell into a huge crisis.

Because the Nicomedia Empire, upon receiving the invitation from Grass King Carlo Yang, their emperor gathered 30,000 knights, wanting to attack from the east of the Storm Kingdom, while the Bulgars attacked from the west.

In this way, they could encircle from both sides, and at the same time launch a devastating blow against the Storm Kingdom, and drive the Storm Lords out of this land, back to their old homes.

In short, the Storm Kingdom had fallen into days of turmoil.

The situation became increasingly chaotic.

Moreover, it wasn't just the Storm Kingdom's situation that was chaotic; the South Serres Military District had also become precarious.

Mainly, the Samori family of the Samori County in the South Serres Military District finally couldn't withstand the civilian riots.

They sailed away on ships and ran to an island belonging to their family in the Naxos archipelago.

They claimed to be going there for a summer retreat.

They only left their armies and knights in the territory, barely maintaining the rule of Samori County.

Among the rioting commoners of the God of Law, many Law Knights emerged for some reason, and some commoners even claimed that they had received divine enlightenment from the God of Law, and that a [Saint] belonging to the God of Law had descended in the chaotic world.

The [Saint] made a prediction—the world will become more chaotic in the future, and only by joining the new church of the God of Law can one protect oneself.

The God of Law has sent the latest prophet into the human world to preach again. His apostle has returned again after 20,000 days, to lead the empire towards the path of revival!

As a result, many territories in the southern part of the South Serres Military District, the Nicopolis Military District, and the Attica Military District began to respond to the call and secretly joined the new church of the God of Law.

In short, the civilian riots that occurred in Samori County did not show any signs of stopping because of the Samori family's escape.

These riots even wanted to spread to all 21 military districts of the Storm Kingdom.

However, because the northern part of the South Serres Military District was a force composed of seven baronies centered on Peter County, like a sea-stabilizing needle, it simultaneously prevented the Bulgars from going south and prevented religious conflicts from going north.

It directly divided the two crises of the Storm Kingdom into two regional crises.

The residents near Peter's territory, because of the clear governance, did not want to return to the memory of the Eastern Human Empire 58 years ago, where various warlords fought each other. And the Bulgars, after the last defeat, were still wary of Peter's barony, and therefore did not dare to go south rashly.

Surface World, Peter's Castle, the debt official belonging to the Storm Royalty finally came to Peter's territory to collect debts.

In the hall of Peter's Castle, the gray-bearded debt official looked somewhat nervously at Su Nan Peter and Mr. Warwick in front of him.

A year and a half ago, he could still be aloof and demand that the Peter family repay the royal debt, but now, the situation had changed.

The royalty had lost two kings in a row in the crisis, and the Peter family had become Storm Earls, and Maple Leaf Town had almost become the most important city in the central Storm Kingdom.

Because Su Nan had obtained an underground gold mine, he could now arrogantly do the same thing as the Othello family did back then.

Use money to build a commercial city!

Gold and silver mines excavated from the underground world were continuously transported up, and began to heavily subsidize caravans and customers to attract them to come, so that they would develop the habit of trading in Maple Leaf City.

At the same time, the stable environment of Peter's territory did indeed attract a large number of merchants to come.

Even the Platinum Republic had begun to truly value Maple Leaf Town from a commercial perspective, especially now, in the days when the Storm Kingdom was in turmoil.

The Peter family had repeatedly proven to the world that chaos would occur everywhere, but chaos would not occur in Peter's territory.

As long as this happened a few more times, Peter's territory and Maple Leaf Town would attract more and more investment.

The total population of Maple Leaf Town now exceeded 40,000, and the population was still increasing.

In the Storm Kingdom, a population of 50,000 or more was already a city, and a population of 100,000 or more was a big city.

At the same time, Su Nan's underground Peter's main city had become a city specializing in the development of metal processing and metal mining, and countless slave laborers were free labor.

However, Su Nan still had to face the problem of the Aether Black Hole creatures.

Su Nan was prepared to throw a group of disobedient slaves down there if it really didn't work, or if the Bulgars and other forces dared to attack his territory, he would capture them and throw them into the Aether Black Hole creatures below Peter's main city.

Whether it was the Aether Black Hole creatures or the 'gate,' he might have to wait until he became a formal wizard before he could deal with them.

The debt official from Storm Keep finally said his purpose. "Earl Peter, we still hope that you can abide by the contract, and at least return the principal of 30,000 Storm gold coins to us."

"The interest can be cancelled."

"Considering the good friendship between the old Baron...no, the old Earl, and our royal family. Our royal family is very short of money now."

"We hope you can return this part of the money to us. If possible, the royal family also wants to...borrow some money."

"We can use some buildings in Storm Keep and some treasures with a long history as collateral. If we do not repay the debt on time, those collaterals can belong to the Peter family."

The debt official carefully chose his words. Earl Storm was already a big figure in this kingdom.

He was the most important noble rank in the Storm Kingdom's noble system.

After all, the duke-level nobles generally also meant that they were basically independent, and only nominally loyal to the Storm King, which was an independent duchy in the Storm Kingdom.

Standing behind Su Nan, Warwick, wearing decent clothes, coughed. "Mr. Tarik."

"You didn't say that when you came to Peter's territory."

"Perhaps if the tone of your voice last time had been half as gentle as it is now, it would have been more helpful to your current situation."

Tarik sighed and said bitterly: "Everyone has times of weakness, but many people have never realized this. I can only apologize for my previous behavior."

"But now is the moment of life and death for the Storm Kingdom. The royal family does not have enough funds to recruit soldiers. I beg you to support us..."